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2016 Dryfire Challenge!
abbafandr:
I shot, poorly, today. Really going to give Drill Zero ( and other dryfire) a serious try. A few thousand extra quality trigger pulls can't hurt, can they? ::)
Definitely going to do something with the front sight so my old eyeballs can pick it up better and quicker.
For January, not a real bad day for shooting. :laugh:
I made a spreadsheet to track my dryfire report, since I know that piece of paper will disappear somewhere.
Lorimor:
Already a fan of Drill Zero.
Picked up a box of Crayola non-toxic markers in the HyVee tactical aisle today. :)
JTH:
Well, it has been a week, so I thought I'd post a picture of my dryfire report and talk about whether it has made any difference yet. We normally don't think of a mere week as sufficient to make much difference (unless we are in a class for the entire week) but if you think about it, as long as we have done at least Drill Zero every day, that's 210 perfect trigger pulls we've done in the last week alone...that's got to amount to something, right? :)
Here's my report:
I shot a USPSA competition and an IDPA competition, mostly did only Drill Zero each day, but did get some additional dryfire practice both last Friday, and today. (The black/blue on Friday is because I did Drill Zero in the morning, but after work came home and got some additional dryfire practice done later.)
And a good thing, too---because I shot a different gun in a different division in the IDPA match yesterday, and the stages were ALL weak-hand-only, with your strong arm in a sling. Luckily, last Friday I did some extra dryfire practice including weak-hand-only trigger work with the G19 I was going to use in the IDPA match. It helped!
No red on the report yet--was going to get to the range today or tomorrow, but....the weather is doing a really good job of attempting to convince me that I don't need to live fire right now. (On the report, black is only Drill Zero dryfire, blue is a longer dryfire practice, green is a shooting competition, and red is live fire.)
I'm not going to say that I feel a huge difference in only a week---but I WILL say that I can feel perhaps a bit of a difference already in how fast my eyes switch focus to the front sight. As we get older, our eyes don't want to change focal length as quickly, and the extra practice is something I need. (My eyes are rapidly going downhill, and it sucks.)
How about you guys? What do your reports look like? If you have missed a day or two, we won't throw you from the group, by the way. You are still getting in more practice than all the people who have read this thread and article, and have decided that they don't need to practice!
How's it going so far? The report helping keep you doing it every day?
Lorimor:
Missed one day. No red days either. Fair weather shooter here. I'm not sure if it's made a noticeable difference yet, but in the long run, I believe it will. Prior to this new training regimen, I relied on Dot Torture and good intentions to improve my WHO shooting. (Well, maybe there were other drills involved along the way.) :) Only 12 points down in the IDPA match Saturday AM. (Shooting wise anyway.)
Some day it will warm up. Then I will break out the red tactical marker. And Heartland has some stuff on the calendar it appears. :)
Edited to add: Don't know why the image is inverted. Looks good on the iPad and iMac. Must be a Windows thing. :)
abbafandr:
Well, I missed a day also :-[. Might get 2 competition this weekend. Really need some live fire practice. Also just a fair weather shooter ;)
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